1 Leadership and Motivation for Presidents LETS 2006 – Lead the Way

2 Effective Club Presidents Maintain and increase membership Motivate Rotarians to serve Provide direction and guidance Ensure that Rotary maintains relevance

3 Club President as Leader Planner Motivator Chairperson Organizer Communicator

4 Club President as Planner Chart the course Identify activities and projects

5 Club President as Motivator Lead the club to accomplish goals Motivate members to participate in projects and activities Motivate Rotarians to give their time to projects

6 How can you motivate your team? Involve them in planning to create a sense of ownership Acknowledge their efforts and successes regularly Provide them with challenges Link their duties to District and RI goals

7 Club President as Chairperson Conduct orderly and effective meetings Call on the help of others (Sergeant)

8 How can you encourage regular attendance? Work with programme leaders to make meetings irresistible Make sure your weekly meeting is enjoyable and stimulating Stress regular attendance to new members

9 More ways to encourage regular attendance Keep members active and engaged Encourage make-ups

10 Club President as Organizer Delegate Provide cooperation

11 Club President as Communicator Communicate Rotary’s goals to the club Report club’s activities to District and RI

12 Club Leadership Plan A model for the future How can you Lead the Way? How can you help to make it work – right now?

13 How is the health of your Club? Start getting your successors in place: President – You! President – Who? President – Who?

14 What can you do now? Think strategically! Involve your President-Elect Involve your President-Nominee Send their names through to the District Governor Come together to a Road Show about the Club Leadership Plan

15 Advantages of adopting a new Leadership Plan for your Club Develop long-range goals Give continuity to projects and project leadership Ease the annual changeover by ensuring that you set annual goals to support your long-range goals Get all your club members involved and informed

16 More advantages Ensure you retain all existing members and develop future leaders Renew members’ enthusiasm

17 What do you think? Clubs in other parts of the world have made the change and report significant increase in membership – in one case by 60% in one year. Could this happen in our District? How? When?

18 Club Leadership Plan Road Show We will conduct Road Shows in cluster groups during August and September We will confirm dates and venues soon Are you willing to host a Road Show?

19 Lead the Way If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got! Are you ready for the challenge? Has your club already started? If it’s to be it’s up to me!